Redington (India) Limited – Tender Offer

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SUMMARY
POTENTIAL BUYBACK ANNOUNCEMENT
On September 11, 2018, Redington (India) Limited (NSEI:REDINGTON) announced that it intends to initiate an equity buyback on September 17, 2018. The Company’s Board of Directors will consider a share repurchase program under which, the company will buyback its own shares.

Share Price = INR 111.00

At the time of potential buyback announcement, the terms of buyback i.e. mode of buyback (tender offer vs. open market repurchase), buyback price and size of buyback are unknown.

TENDER OFFER ANNOUNCEMENT
On September 17, 2018, Redington (India) Limited (NSEI:REDINGTON) announced a tender offer to buyback 11.12 million shares at a buyback price of ₹ 125.00 per share. This represents a spread of 17.2% over the market price of ₹ 106.70 per share, as of the announcement date. The proposed buyback shares represents 2.78% of the total outstanding shares of 400.17 million. Given SEBI’s rule of preference to small shareholders who own less than ₹ 0.2 million worth of shares of the Company, approximately 1.67 million shares are reserved for small shareholders, which represents 15% of the proposed buyback.

Features – Tender Offer – Fixed Price
Share Price = INR 106.70
Buyback Price = INR 125.00
Spread = 17.2%
Buyback Size = 2.8% or 11.12 million shares

RECORD DATE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Company has fixed the record date of September 28, 2018 for the purpose of determining the entitlement and the names of equity shareholders who are eligible to participate in the buyback.

BUYBACK DATES ANNOUNCEMENT
The Company has announced the buyback open and close dates to participate in this tender offer. The buyback window for putting instructions opens on November 6, 2018 and closes on November 22, 2018.

RISK-REWARD ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS AS OF TENDER OFFER ANNOUNCEMENT DATE
Share Price = INR 106.70

Based on our research and analysis, the acceptance rate of this tender offer for small shareholders is expected to fall in the 30%-85% range. At the current price level, this represents an expected return between 5.1% and 14.6%. If the share price drops by 5%, the expected return would be between 1.6% and 13.8%. If the share price increases by 5%, the expected return would be between 8.6% and 15.3%. At 100% acceptance rate, the maximum return would be around 17.2%.
Based on the above risk-reward ratio analysis, Redington (India) Limited tender offer appears to be an attractive low-risk arbitrage opportunity for small shareholders.

CONCLUSION = INVEST

ANALYSIS AS OF 3 DAYS PRIOR TO RECORD DATE
Share Price = INR 100.00

At the current price level and above mentioned acceptance rates, an expected return is between 7.5% and 21.3%. If the share price drops by 5%, the expected return would be between 4.0% and 20.5%. If the share price increases by 5%, the expected return would be between 11.0% and 22.0%. At 100% acceptance rate, the maximum return would be around 25.0%.
Based on the above risk-reward ratio analysis, Redington (India) Limited tender offer continue to appear to be an attractive low-risk arbitrage opportunity for small shareholders.

CONCLUSION = STAY INVESTED

ANALYSIS AS OF BUYBACK OPEN DATE
Share Price = INR 87.50

At the current price level and above mentioned acceptance rates, an expected return is between 12.9% and 36.4%. If the share price drops by 5%, the expected return would be between 9.4% and 35.7%. If the share price increases by 5%, the expected return would be between 16.4% and 37.2%.
Based on the above risk-reward ratio analysis, Redington (India) Limited tender offer continue to appear to be an attractive low-risk arbitrage opportunity for small shareholders.

CONCLUSION = PARTICIPATE

POST-BUYBACK ANNOUNCEMENT & RESULT
On November 22, 2018, Redington (India) Limited (NSEI:REDINGTON) announced the final results of the buyback. A total of 4.49 million shares were tendered by small shareholders, out of which 1.67 million shares were accepted. Therefore, the actual acceptance rate for small shareholders turned out to be approximately 37%. The share price decreased by 16.2% since the tender offer announcement, which includes 12.0% decrease between the tender offer announcement and record date, and 4.2% decrease between the record date and closing date.

Share Price = INR 89.40

Given we decided to INVEST at the time of tender offer announcement, decided to STAY INVESTED at the time of record date and decided to PARTICIPATE at the time of buyback open date, the net realized return was -3.8% over a span of 66 days, which is equivalent to an annualized return of -19.3%.

RESULT = LOSS
RETURN = -3.8%
DURATION = 66 days
ANNUALIZED IRR = -19.3%

REFERENCE LINKS/FILINGS

Tender Offer Announcement
Record Date Announcement
Buyback Dates Announcement
Post Buyback Announcement

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